Patent portfolios and Patent Assertion Entities: antitrust issues and future perspective under the Unified Patent Court

Protecting research has always been a relevant issue in order to foster innovation, especially in the pharmaceutical field. Intellectual property rights protection plays a main role in the current economy since it allows companies to monetize efforts and investments in research and development thro...

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Main Author: Pietro Cappabianca
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Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad de Cádiz 2024-06-01
Series:Revista de Estudios Jurídicos y Criminológicos
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description Protecting research has always been a relevant issue in order to foster innovation, especially in the pharmaceutical field. Intellectual property rights protection plays a main role in the current economy since it allows companies to monetize efforts and investments in research and development through the patent system. However, in the past years antitrust authorities found themselves in front of a tangled question: the strategic use of patents in order to unlawfully prolong the protection time and, by so doing, to exclude competitors from the market. The strategic use of patent portfolios and the rapid growth of Patent Assertion Entities represent a significant antitrust issue which needs to be investigated, especially following the Agreement on unitary patent and Unified Patent Court and the related deep changes in the European patent system in order to verify if such Agreement can be a useful tool against strategic and anti-competitive conducts.
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spelling doaj-art-ec82e1435ef84e31ae7ebb6bc6b4dd4f2025-01-16T09:37:36ZspaUniversidad de CádizRevista de Estudios Jurídicos y Criminológicos2660-79642024-06-019Patent portfolios and Patent Assertion Entities: antitrust issues and future perspective under the Unified Patent CourtPietro Cappabianca0Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II (Italia) Protecting research has always been a relevant issue in order to foster innovation, especially in the pharmaceutical field. Intellectual property rights protection plays a main role in the current economy since it allows companies to monetize efforts and investments in research and development through the patent system. However, in the past years antitrust authorities found themselves in front of a tangled question: the strategic use of patents in order to unlawfully prolong the protection time and, by so doing, to exclude competitors from the market. The strategic use of patent portfolios and the rapid growth of Patent Assertion Entities represent a significant antitrust issue which needs to be investigated, especially following the Agreement on unitary patent and Unified Patent Court and the related deep changes in the European patent system in order to verify if such Agreement can be a useful tool against strategic and anti-competitive conducts. http://localhost:8888/ojs-uca.3.3.x/index.php/rejucrim/article/view/10859patentsantitrustpatent poolR&Dcompetitionpatent assertion entities
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Patent portfolios and Patent Assertion Entities: antitrust issues and future perspective under the Unified Patent Court
Revista de Estudios Jurídicos y Criminológicos
patents
antitrust
patent pool
R&D
competition
patent assertion entities
title Patent portfolios and Patent Assertion Entities: antitrust issues and future perspective under the Unified Patent Court
title_full Patent portfolios and Patent Assertion Entities: antitrust issues and future perspective under the Unified Patent Court
title_fullStr Patent portfolios and Patent Assertion Entities: antitrust issues and future perspective under the Unified Patent Court
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title_short Patent portfolios and Patent Assertion Entities: antitrust issues and future perspective under the Unified Patent Court
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competition
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